In my last post I talked about my first attempt at making a blue cheese.  Things have progressed with these “Little Blue Barrels” and now they are covered with wonderful blue mould, the geo that I added has started to bloom and give some nice wrinkles too.

Little Blue Barrels

It is amazing how much a difference a week can make when aging these little things.  I am constantly surprised at my sudden affinity for these cheeses that I swore I would never makeNow these little beauties were ready to be wrapped, but with what?  They are a hybrid cheese, a combination blue-bloomy semi lactic, so would I use microcrystalline paper or foil?  I have lots of the paper and I don’t have any proper blue cheese foil.

This one has been tricky but it will be my taster.

Little wrinkles

Starting to get more of a geo bloom

I no longer want to scrub these clean.

I love the little yellow blotches.

And the wrinkles.

In the end I took the advice of one of the pro’s that follow me on Instagram.

Foil it is.

They are not pretty but it will work.

Time will tell if theses “Little Blue Barrels” will be any good.